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(Auction)Queen Anne and Cape Ann Lead Anniversary Sale
Blackwood/March Auctioneers & Appraisers, Essex, MassachusettsThe sale’s top lot (and the best ever for the auction house) was this circa 1730 Boston Queen Anne easy chair that sold to Luke Beckerdite for $127,650. March offered it as lot 29, chosen to coincide with his 29th year in business. Blackwood/March photo. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Exhibition of Babar Original Illustrations and Manuscripts
by Rose SafranDrawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors is the first exhibition of the Morgan Library & Museum's Babar collection, acquired in 2004. The series of images is sure to interest the many generations of adults who as children enjoyed the iconic fictional orphaned French elephant in a green suit, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Biggs Museum of American Art Buys Delaware Clock
by Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Weschler's.A tall clock in a walnut case with a silvered brass dial signed "Jas. Kinkead, Christiana Bridge," circa 1780, sold at Weschler's in Washington, D.C., on October 11 for $61,000 (includes buyer's premium). The buyer was the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover, Delaware."The clock ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Obama Progress Poster Brings $4800
On Wednesday, November 5, one day after Barack Obama's historic election, a signed, dated, and numbered political poster by Shepard Fairey depicting Obama above the word "Progress" sold for $4800 (includes buyer's premium) during the $1.2 million sale of fine art prints in San Francisco and Los Angeles by Bonhams ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Mother and Son Art Dealers Plead Guilty
>On October 22, Christopher Breithoff, 35, and Constance Breithoff, 60, both of Covington, Louisiana, pled guilty to crimes involving a scheme to defraud customers of the Barlow Art Gallery and Transitions in Mandeville, Louisiana, which the Breithoffs had owned and operated since 2004. They also operated a gallery on Royal ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Another Historical Document Seized
by David HewettAnother historical document has been seized from a dealer by law enforcement officers under orders from higher-ups. This latest episode occurred in Fishtown, Pennsylvania.On September 24, state troopers entered Perpetua, a store owned by 63-year-old Edward Marshall, and demanded that Marshall turn over an item he had bought ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Thomas Chambers: The People's Choice
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenThomas Chambers: American Marine and Landscape Painter, 1808-1869by Kathleen A. FosterPhiladelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2008, 171 pages, hardbound, $50 (plus $13 shipping), softbound, $39.95 (plus $8 shipping), from the museum store, (215) 684-7960, Web site (www.philamuseumstore.org).If you think it surprising ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lorello Sentenced
Lorello Sentenced by Erin DenninFormer New York state employee Daniel Lorello has been sentenced before Albany County Court Judge Thomas Breslin to two to six years in prison for stealing more than 1600 historic documents from the New York State Library and Archives and selling them on eBay and at ... (Read More)
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